4 of richest 400 Americans live, work in N.J.

12:33 AM,
Sep. 18, 2013

David Tepper of Appaloosa Management, co-founder of Better Education for N.J. Kids.

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Sergio Bichao
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New Jersey is home to four of the 400 richest Americans, including two college dropouts and a media tycoon.

The average net worth of the national list compiled by Forbes magazine was a record $5 billion, which is $800 million more than the average last year. Click here to read the full list.

The Top 400 list hits newsstands just as a recently released report by Legal Services of New Jersey claims that the number of poor people in the state grew by 80,000 in 2011 to 2.1 million residents. ...